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NE cherished spot in the programmes is, for me, 4YA’s Friday half-hour from 9.30 till 10.0 p.m. Denis Gray, in his series of programmes, The Life of Greece, has made this time a delight too quickly gone. He has included in his sessions almost every aspect of his subject, as exemplified by such titles as "From the Woman’s Point of View," "To the Unknown God," etc. Mr. Gray is a rarity as far as radio speakers are concerned-a combination of the erudite intellectual and the happy dilletante. His scripts are a joy to listen to; his-trans-lations from the Greek make one won-. der whether they could have sounded as witty in the original; and his uninhibited choicc of extracts for quotation keeps listeners on the constant alert lest some juicy morsel escape them, When I add that he has to help him a team of expert readers, the discriminating listener will realise that here we have something not to be missed on any account.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 506, 4 March 1949, Page 8
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166Easy Erudition New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 506, 4 March 1949, Page 8
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